Saturday, December 4, 2021

Wrap-Up of the 2021 New Release Reading Challenge


I signed up to read 30 books for this challenge and I more then met the challenge by reading 55 books.  23 of them were mysteries, 13 were historical fiction, 10 were graphic novels and the rest were about politics, science, and Amish fiction.  28 of the authors were new (to me.) Here is what I read:

Now and Then Stab by Anna Castle
Haunted Hibiscus by Laura Childs
Twisted Tea Christmas by Laura Childs
Deliberate Duplicity by David Rohlfing
The French Paradox by Ellen Crosby
The Wedding by Ruth Heald
The Grand Odalisque by Ruppert and Mullet
Women Discoverers by Marie Monard
One Perfect Grave by Stacy Green
Freiheit by Andrea Grosso Ciponte
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
The Cartiers by Francesca Cartier Brickell
Portrait of Peril by Laura Joh Rowland
The Moonlight Child by Karen McQuestion
Play Dead by Ted Dekker
The Night Gate by Peter May
The Perfect Daughter by Daniel Palmer
China by Edward Rutherford
The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
The Fourth of July by Cami Checkouts
Gone by Sharon Mitchell
Return to the Big Valley by Wanda Brunstetter
The Cellist by Daniel Silva
Dominus by Steven Saylor
Factory Summers by Guy DeLisle
Rebecca & Lucie by Pascal Girard
Loch Down Abbey by Beth Cowan Erskine
The Dying Day by Vaseem Khan
Hemlock by Susan Wittig Albert
The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs
An Untidy Death by Simon Brett
Peril by Bob Woodward
The Good Death by S. D. Sykes
The Tenant by Keith Ververka
Berlin and Betrayal by Susan Finley
COVID Chronicles by Ethan Sacks
Home by Julio Anta
The Beginning by Beverly Lewis
A Tapestry of Light by Kimberly Duffy
The French House by Helen Fripp
Menorca Sketchbook by Graham Byfield
The Widow Queen by Elzbieta Cherezinska
Defending Britta Stein by  Ronald Balson
The Waiting by Keum Suk Gentry-Kim
The Flower Boat Girl by Larry Feign
Prayers of the Dead by Priscilla Royal
Tunnels by Rutu Modan
The All Nighter by Chip Zdarsky and Jason Loo
Anticipation by Melodie Winawer

Favorite Book:  China

2nd Favorite Book:  Defending Britta Stein

Least Favorite Book:  The Flower Boat Girl (a vulgar historical fiction novel. Yuck!)

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